In “The Shores of Wisdom”, Derek Adie Flower gives a delightful story of the rise and fall of the Ancient Library of Alexandria – the world’s power of knowledge and culture twenty-three centuries ago. Flower tells the story with a unique style, giving us glimpses of the forces which made the place prosper with great philosophers and scientists (Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes…) and the causes of decline when politics and religion became in conflict with rationality… The book is indeed an enjoyable piece to read.

Prof. Ahmed H. Zewail 1998 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Egypt

There is tantalisingly little known about the great library of Alexandria. The writers, philosophers and historians who used it, and whose works filled its shelves, were the founding fathers of Western civilisation…..Derek Flower was moved to write this book by the romantic project of recreating the library of Alexandria…. He tells the tale in rollicking style, with many entertaining anecdotes.….

Michael Borrie –  Literary Review. UK

…. Much of Flower’s book consists of brief biographies of the brilliant men attracted to Alexandria by the library, a roll call of those who laid the foundation of our civilisation: Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, Strabo and Galen and, in due course, the philosophers who shaped the dogma of the Christian religion….

Russell Chamberlin’s.  Monacle UK